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Who will win the 2015 World Series?
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Topic Started: Oct 22 2015, 04:38 AM (78 Views)
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....looks like its' another year of heartache for Cubs fans....

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(SRN News) CHICAGO (AP) — The New York Mets are going to the World Series. New York swept Chicago in four games to win the National League Championship Series. The powerful bats and solid pitching of the Mets downed the Cubs 8-3 on Wednesday night at Chicago’s Wrigley Field. The Mets will face the winner of the ALCS between the Toronto Blue Jays and Kansas City Royals.

New York 2nd baseman Daniel Murphy won the NL Championship Series MVP after homering for a postseason-record sixth straight game

A contact hitter known for inconsistent fielding and occasional lapses on base, Murphy has been the driving force in the Mets’ push for their first pennant 15 years.

Murphy set the record with his latest blast in the eighth inning. He added a double and two singles and has hit safely in each of the Mets’ nine postseason games.

New York, meanwhile, advanced to the World Series for the first time since a bitter Subway Series loss to the Yankees in 2000. This time, the Mets will face Kansas City or Toronto as they try to win their first championship since the amazon’ bunch led by Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry won it all in 1986.

That Mets’ drought, of course, is nothing compared to that of the Cubs, who haven’t won it all since 1908 and won’t this year because of Murphy.
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SRN News: Royals Punch Ticket To World Series

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KANSAS CITY (Reuters) – The Kansas City Royals advanced to the World Series for a second straight year after some daring base-running helped them beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 in Game Six of the American League Championship Series on Friday.

Lorenzo Cain scored from first base on a single down the right field line by Eric Hosmer with no outs in the bottom of the eighth to snap a 3-3 tie and set up a ‘Fall Classic’ against National League champions the New York Mets. The best-of-seven Major League Baseball championship series will begin on Tuesday in Kansas City.

Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar was named most valuable player of the series after batting .478 (11-for-23), scoring six runs, driving in five and playing sterling defense.

While Cain made a mad dash around the Kauffman Stadium bases, Toronto outfielder Jose Bautista pirouetted after reaching the ball and fired toward second to keep Hosmer at first, not thinking Cain would try to race home on the play.

Toronto threatened in the ninth with similar aggression on the basepaths as pinch-runner Dalton Pompey stole second and third with no one out and Kevin Pillar walked to put men on first and third with Royals closer Wade Davis on the mound.

“It got pretty bad there, pretty quick,” said Davis, who came into the game at the top of the eighth and waited an hour to return to the mound for the ninth because of a rain delay. “I kept telling myself, ‘We can get out of it, keep making pitches, just get this win for the team.'”

Davis struck out pinch-hitter Dioner Navarro and Ben Revere before getting Josh Donaldson to ground out to third to secure a 4-2 series triumph with a nail-biting victory that unleashed wild celebrations on the diamond.

--Read more: http://www.srnnews.com/royals-punch-return-ticket-to-world-series-3/
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The 2015 World Series will be the 111th edition of Major League Baseball's championship series, a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champions New York Mets and the American League (AL) champions Kansas City Royals. The start date is October 27, with Game 7 (if necessary) scheduled for November 4. If Game 5 is necessary, since it is played on November 1, it will be the first time since 2010 that a game of the World Series is played in November.

The Royals will have home field advantage for the series because of the AL's 6–3 victory in the All-Star Game at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 14. This is the 14th World Series in which home field advantage was awarded to the league that won the All-Star Game. The series will be played in a 2-3-2 format: the Royals will host games 1, 2, 6, and 7 while the Mets will host games 3, 4, and 5.


World Series Schedule...
Gm.1 (27 Oct. 2015) - New York Mets at Kansas City Royals
Gm.2 (28 Oct. 2015) - New York Mets at Kansas City Royals
Gm.3 (30 Oct. 2015) - Kansas City Royals at New York Mets
Gm.4 (31 Oct. 2015) - Kansas City Royals at New York Mets
*Gm.5 (1 Nov. 2015) - Kansas City Royals at New York Mets
*Gm.6 (3 Nov. 2015) - New York Mets at Kansas City Royals
*Gm.7 (4 Nov. 2015) - New York Mets at Kansas City Royals
* - if needed
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Yahoo Sports: Royals Top Mets In 14-Inning Classic

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Game 1 of the World Series featured a leadoff inside-the-park home run, a starting pitcher whose father had died earlier in the day, an egregious error reminiscent of the most famous in baseball history, a game-tying, bottom-of-the-ninth-inning home run and an extra-innings, walk-off celebration in a game that tied for the lengthiest in World Series history.

If the rest of the 111th World Series is anything like the first game that started Tuesday and bled into early Wednesday, baseball is in for one hell of a week.

The Kansas City Royals, baseball's comeback kids, saved their most dramatic moments yet for the New York Mets. Eric Hosmer hit a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded that scored Alcides Escobar after he reached on a David Wright error in the bottom of the 14th inning, propelling the Royals to a frenetic 5-4 victory in front of 40,320 at Kauffman Stadium.

They braved five hours, nine minutes of baseball to witness Hosmer's redemption. It came six innings after his brutal error and five innings after Alex Gordon saved him with a 438-foot shot off impregnable closer Jeurys Familia with one out in the bottom of the ninth and Kansas City trailing, 4-3. Familia, who hadn't blown a save since July 30, watched his 97-mph sinker fly into the night and become the first game-tying or go-ahead home run that late in Game 1 of the World Series since Kirk Gibson took Dennis Eckersley deep in 1988.

--Read more: https://sports.yahoo.com/news/royals-win-instant-classic-game-1-of-the-world-series-in-14th-inning-053419603.html
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SRN News: Cueto's 2-Hitter Gives Royals 2-0 Series Lead

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Following the final out, after Johnny Cueto completed his two-hitter, several hundred fans remained in Kauffman Stadium, wanting one more look at the Kansas City Royals. The next time they see Eric Hosmer and his teammates may be in a parade.

After smothering the Mets 7-1 Wednesday night with Cueto and their pesky offense, the Royals have a 2-0 World Series lead and can capture their first title since 1985 when play resumes at New York’s Citi Field this weekend.

Hosmer thought about Kansas City’s seven-game loss to the Giants in 2014. “There’s still a lot of work yet to do,” he said. “Last year we took a 2-1 lead in San Francisco and were feeling pretty good about ourselves.”

Kansas City wore down Jacob deGrom with persistence and prowess, then pounced. Hosmer hit a tiebreaking, two-run single with two outs in a four-run fifth inning that included 14 foul balls.

Nineteen hours after Hosmer’s sacrifice fly won a 14-inning thriller, Cueto varied his delivery with occasional quick pitches and kept the Mets off balance. An excited crowd stood on its feet for long stretches to cheer on the rainy night. Some fans wore wigs resembling Cueto’s long, dark dreadlocks — including the Royals’ mascot, Slugerrr.

The teams take Thursday off then New York’s Citi Field hosts its first Series game Friday, when rookie Noah Syndergaard starts for the Mets and Yordano Ventura for the Royals.

Forty-one of the 51 teams to take 2-0 leads in best-of-seven World Series have gone on to win the title, including nine straight since Atlanta stumbled against the New York Yankees in 1996.

Kansas City had the best contact hitters in the major leagues this season, missing on just 19.7 percent of swings, according to STATS. The Dodgers and Cubs swung and missed 58 times in deGrom’s first three postseason outings, but he got just three swings and misses against the Royals — his career low.

“We don’t swing and miss,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “We find ways to just keep putting the ball in play until you find holes.”

Of deGrom’s 94 pitches, 23 were fouled off by the Royals.
“I told Jake not everything has to be a strike,” Mets manager Terry Collins said. “You’ve got to move it around. You’ve got to change speeds, give them something to look at. If you continue to pound the strike zone, they’re going to put it in play, and that’s what they did.”

Cueto has struggled on the road, where opposing fans taunt him by repeating his name in a sing-song voice. But since the Royals acquired the free-agent-to-be from Cincinnati in July, he’s been Johnny on the spot at Kauffman Stadium. He pitched two-hit ball over eight innings to win Game 5 of the Division Series against Houston, and Kansas City lined up its Series rotation to have Cueto starting Games 2 and 6 at home.

Cueto struck out four and walked three in the low-hit Series complete game by an AL pitcher since Boston’s Jim Lonborg threw a one-hitter against St. Louis in 1967. Both New York hits were soft singles by Lucas Duda, an infield roller to third that took advantage of the shift in the second inning and an opposite-field RBI single to left in the fourth. Cueto let loose some emotion at the end of the eighth inning, when Alcides Escobar made a nifty play to retire Juan Lagares for the final out. As Escobar sprinted past him, Cueto exchanged a flamboyant high five with the shortstop.

After Yoenis Cespedes flied to center for the final out, Cueto pointed to the sky and was congratulated by catcher Salvador Perez. Cueto pitched the first Series complete game by an AL pitcher since Minnesota’s Jack Morris won Game 7 against Atlanta in 1991. “That’s what they brought me here for, was to help win a World Series,” Cueto said.

DeGrom, 3-0 in the postseason coming in, allowed four runs, six hits and three walks over five innings in a hairy matchup of pitchers with contrasting long locks. Pitching with seven days’ rest, deGrom held Kansas City to one hit through four innings but got in trouble in the fifth, when he walked Alex Gordon on a 3-2 slider leading off.

Alex Rios followed with a single and Escobar fouled off a pair of bunt attempts before driving an 0-2 slider up the middle for a tying single.

Ben Zobrist’s grounder advanced the runners, and Lorenzo Cain fouled off four pitches before a flyout to short center. Hosmer singled off the mound into center field for a 3-1 lead, and Kendrys Morales’ singled in another run.

Gordon added an RBI double in the eighth off Jon Niese, a ball off the glove of shortstop Wilmer Flores. Paulo Orlando, the first Brazil-born player to appear in a Series, followed with a sacrifice fly against Addison Reed, and Escobar tripled in a run.
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SRN News: Mets Make It A Series With 9-3 Win In Game 3

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York Mets climbed back into the World Series with a crucial 9-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals at a jubilant Citi Field on Friday.

Lifted by the roars of the home crowd, a pair of two-run home runs, and gritty pitching by rookie Noah Syndergaard, the Mets narrowed the deficit in the best-of-seven ‘Fall Classic’ to 2-1.

Mets manager Terry Collins said it had been vital his team avoided going 3-0 down, a deficit no club has overcome to win a World Series. “Sure, when you get down 3-0 it’s really difficult,” said Collins. “I just thought it was a real big game for us.”

Captain David Wright blasted a homer in the bottom of the first off Yordano Ventura to give New York a 2-1 lead, and after the Royals scored two runs in the second, Curtis Granderson hit a shot over the right-field fence in the third for a 4-3 lead.

A four-run outburst in the sixth, helped along by some sloppy Royals fielding, put the game out of reach as Wright broke out of a postseason slump by going 2-for-5 with four runs batted in.

Fireballer Syndergaard settled down after yielding six hits in the first two frames to pitch six innings, giving up three runs on seven hits with six strikeouts.

The Mets, the National League champions, will try to square the series in Game Four in New York on Saturday.

-Read more: http://www.srnnews.com/mets-make-it-a-series-with-game-3-win-over-kansas-city-royals/
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SRN News: Royals One Win Away From World Series Victory

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Kansas City Royals moved within one win of their first World Series crown in 30 years by beating the New York Mets 5-3 on Saturday to take a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven for the Major League Baseball championship.

An error by Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy, their National League Championship Series hero, on a slow roller by Eric Hosmer in the eighth inning opened the floodgates for the Royals, who turned a 3-2 deficit into a 5-3 lead.

The three-run burst against relievers Tyler Clippard and Jeurys Familia negated a pair of home runs hit by Mets’ rookie Michael Conforto. “That’s just what our team does,” said Royals manager Ned Yost, after his team’s seventh comeback win of the postseason. “We feel like if we can keep the game close, we’re going to find a way to win it.

“It’s a team that just looks for a little crack. If we find a little crack, they’re going to make something happen.”
Kansas City closer Wade Davis came on in the eighth to register a six-out save, with reliever Ryan Madson claiming the win.

The Royals will seek to end the series with a Game Five win in New York on Sunday. A Mets win would send the series back to Kansas City for Game Six on Tuesday. “We’ve been swinging the bats very well. We had a nice night last night, and tonight we just didn’t get the hits when we needed them, except for Conforto,” Mets manager Terry Collins told reporters.

“If anybody can give me the answers to why we’re not hitting in certain situations, I’d like to hear them.”
Fueled by solo shots leading off the third and fifth innings by 22-year-old Conforto, and five solid innings from fellow-rookie Mets starter Steven Matz, New York looked set to level the series at 2-2 when they entered the eighth inning.

CRAZY EIGHTH
Mets manager Collins sent Tyler Clippard, his fifth pitcher of the night, out to start the eighth. After retiring Alcides Escobar, Clippard walked Ben Zobrist and Lorenzo Cain, and closer Jeurys Familia was summoned.

Familia got Hosmer to tap a slow roller to the right side and Murphy charged in only to have the dribbler sneak under his glove and roll into short rightfield. That allowed Zobrist to score and Cain to reach third.

Mike Moustakas followed with a ground single to right that scored Cain and Salvador Perez added another single to right to plate Hosmer for the third run of the inning. “Daniel Murphy did not lose this game, we lost this game as a team,” Mets captain David Wright said about the man who set an MLB record with home runs in six successive postseason games for New York during their run to the World Series.

Moustakas said the Royals keep fighting and applying pressure. “We’re just trying to put the ball in play,” Moustakas said after driving in the game-winning run.

“Familia, that guy throws a bowling-ball sinker and Hoz did a good job of putting the ball in play and make some things happen. It’s just kind of how the ball bounced today.”

After throwing a 1-2-3 eighth, closer Davis put men on first and second with one out before Lucas Duda hit a soft liner to third baseman Moustakas, who fired to first to double up Yoenis Cespedes, who strayed too far, for a game-ending double play.

The victory put the Royals on the cusp of their first title since their 1985 triumph over cross-state rivals the St. Louis Cardinals.
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SRN News: Royals Reign Supreme In World Series

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Kansas City ended a 30-year wait for a World Series title as the Royals reigned over Major League Baseball with a 7-2, 12-inning victory over the New York Mets on Sunday.

A pinch-hit single by utility infielder Christian Colon scored the go-ahead run off reliever Addison Reed in the 12th and the Royals added four more runs in the inning as they captured the best-of-seven series 4-1.

The visitors swarmed into the middle of the diamond in the hushed Citi Field stadium for a celebration by the mound where closer Wade Davis had struck out the side to end it.
Catcher Salvador Perez was named Most Valuable Player of the Series after batting .364 with two RBIs, three runs scored and a .391 on-base average, and expertly handling a pitching staff that more than held their own against the vaunted Mets hurlers.

“It is unbelievable we feel like a family here and we knew we were going to do something special this year, I felt it in spring training,” Perez said. “Now I don’t feel pain, I don’t feel nothing. I am ready to celebrate.”

The Royals’ triumph was all the sweeter coming after their agonizing Game Seven loss in last year’s World Series to the San Francisco Giants and a large contingent of blue-shirted Royals supporters crowded around their dugout to share in the joy.

“The heart, the desire, and their competitiveness and their character showed through every single game,” Kansas City manager Ned Yost said about his players. It marked Kansas City’s first Fall Classic crown since their 1985 triumph against cross-state rivals the St. Louis Cardinals.

COMEBACK KIDS
The Kansas City comeback kids trailed 2-0 heading into the ninth but rallied to tie the game, ruining the shutout bid of starter Matt Harvey and handing closer Jeurys Familia his third blown save of the series.

At the end of eighth, the crowd chanted “Harvey! Harvey!” hoping to see him come out to pitch the ninth, and the Mets ace ended the suspense when the bearded 26 year old ran from the dugout to the mound to Citi Field cheers.

Harvey, who had dueled with Royals starter Edinson Volquez in the tense battle, walked leadoff hitter Lorenzo Cain, who promptly stole second base. Eric Hosmer followed with a line-drive double to left that scored Cain to make it 2-1.

Mets manager Terry Collins then called in Familia, who was charged with blown saves in Game One and Game Four.
Familia got Moustakas to ground out to first as Hosmer raced to third. Perez hit a grounder to third baseman David Wright, who bluffed Hosmer back toward the bag before throwing on to first base for the out.

But as soon as Wright released the ball, Hosmer broke for home and first baseman Lucas Duda’s throw to the plate came in wide as Hosmer slid in safely to tie the game.
The title-clinching victory was Kansas City’s remarkable eighth come-from-behind win of the postseason.

“What they accomplished this year was nothing less than spectacular and very, very special,” manager Yost said. “They just don’t quit, they’ve got a lot of heart, they’ve got a lot of character and they never think they are going to lose.”

Mets manager Terry Collins was gracious in defeat. “I congratulate the Royals. They played absolutely great,” Collins said. “We couldn’t get it done, and we’re hoping to get another chance at it. I just told he players, I’ve done this for a long, long time and this is the most fun I’ve ever had in all the years,” said Collins, at age 66 is the oldest manager in the majors. “I’m very, very proud of them.”

...congratulations to Kansas City on their 2015 World Series triumph!
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